{"id":39756,"date":"2013-02-02T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39756"},"modified":"2013-02-02T07:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:12:26","slug":"rip-skateboarder-waldo-autry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39756","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Skateboarder Waldo Autry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/waldo-autry-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/waldo-autry-1.jpg','popup','width=500,height=336,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/waldo-autry-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Waldo-Autry-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legendary skateboarding pioneer <strong>Donald &#8220;Waldo&#8221; Autry<\/strong> was found dead in his van on January 23, 2013 &#8220;outside of the Upstairs Downstairs salon where he worked in Seal Beach,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/beach-414016-autry-hegstrom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Autry was 55.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Autry was a pioneer of extreme skateboarding, featured in movies back in the mid-&#8217;70s when the sport was in its infancy, about the same time the now-famous Dogtown crew hit the scene. His early pool and pipe skills were featured in the iconic surf film &#8220;Five Summer Stories.&#8221; friend <strong>David Hegstrom<\/strong> said. . . He was featured recently in a documentary called &#8220;Signal Hill Speed Run,&#8221; which premiered at Cal State Long Beach recently. He was also an avid surfer who could be found near the pier in Seal Beach or Huntington Beach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No foul play is suspected, according to the story. We will always remember those epic images of Autry in pools and pipes. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. A memorial service will be held February 23, 2013 at the north end of the Bolsa Chica State Beach parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/beach-414016-autry-hegstrom.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong> Photo via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ozzieausband.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/page\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Tile Obsession<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary skateboarding pioneer Donald &#8220;Waldo&#8221; Autry was found dead in his van on January 23, 2013 &#8220;outside of the Upstairs Downstairs salon where he worked in Seal Beach,&#8221; according to a story in the Orange County Register. Autry was 55. Autry was a pioneer of extreme skateboarding, featured in movies back in the mid-&#8217;70s when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39759,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756\/revisions\/39759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}